Know Your Room

I’ve learned something over the years that I wish I’d understood sooner.

A person can be gifted, brilliant, and trained at the highest level, yet still feel ineffective if they’re placed in the wrong environment.
Talent doesn’t disappear.
It just goes quiet.

A surgeon in an operating room can save a life.
Place that same surgeon in an auto repair shop, and the skill set usually doesn’t translate.
Same person.
Same mind.
Wrong room.

I’ve watched this play out in real life.

I’ve worked with people who genuinely wanted to sing.
In their own mind, they believed they were among the best in the room.
They loved it.
They felt alive doing it.
But beyond a proud mom, the room didn’t agree.

That’s the part we don’t talk about enough.
Loving something doesn’t automatically make it your lane.
Passion and placement are not the same thing.

I’ve seen people with so much inside them keep trying to bring value in places where their gifts were never meant to shine.
It slows them down.
It wears them thin.
It clouds their sense of calling.
And over time, they begin to believe the lie that they don’t have much to offer at all.

Somewhere along the way, we were told to chase what we enjoy.
But joy and impact don’t always line up.
My first instinct isn’t always where I bring the most value.
Sometimes calling requires searching.
Listening.
Paying attention to where God has already wired me to make a difference.

So I’ve started asking myself a better question.
Where does the room get better because I’m in it?
Where do things shift, even slightly, when I show up?
Where does my presence actually help someone else?

That’s usually where my value lives.
In strengths that feel so natural, I forget they’re strengths.
In gifts God placed in me long before I knew what to call them.

When I stay in that lane, vision becomes reality.
Purpose rises.
Peace settles.

Know your value.
Know your room.
And walk toward the places where your life adds light.

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